Almost Home: The 1864 Diary of Sergeant Samuel E. Grosvenor

Almost Home is the transcription of Grosvenor’s diary from his time with the 16th Regiment, Company B, as they were encamped at Plymouth, North Carolina, and then taken by the Confederate Army and imprisoned at Andersonville. Throughout 1864 and his time as a POW, Grosvenor shares his thoughts on the war, his faith in God, the inhuman environment of the prison, the weather, the food (or lack of), to his expressions of joy of being released in December and being reunited with family and friends. Throughout the diary is a narrative compiled from other sources shedding more light on the events that Grosvenor makes note of along with many pictures including some rare photos taken during the war and of Grosvenor’s homestead in Guilford.